May 2013
3 posts
OER: Rice’s OpenStax College Doubles Down on Free,... →
May 7th
New: Key Findings From The Survey of Library Use... →
May 6th
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California: “Tech Toolbar” Opening at Cupertino... →
May 6th
April 2013
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Apr 26th
February 2013
2 posts
Archivist Puts the History in Historical Drama... →
Feb 14th
In the Library, With the Stethoscope →
Public Libraries, Collaboration, Nursing,
Feb 14th
November 2012
4 posts
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Do More Faster: 10 Best Apps & Tools →
Five-time entrepreneur Frank Addante lists the digital gems that help him be organized and save time.
Nov 30th
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If You Build It, Will They Come? Library Learning... →
Like many institutions, the Shapiro Library invested in a space renovation of its lobby to support student learning by fostering collaboration, offering technology-rich resources, and connecting to academic programs. What wasn’t clear was why students failed to use the technology allowing them to plug in their laptops and project their work onto large screens for collaborative work. The library...
Nov 28th
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Check out my professional profile and connect with... →
Nov 13th
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Twitter analytics  →
Great resources to find Twitter analytics, who is looking at your site and when find out!
Nov 5th
October 2012
2 posts
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Google Launches Free Tool To Let You Run Your Own... →
Oct 5th
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Will Public Libraries Become Extinct? →
This article is sickening, however the rebuttal is great!
Oct 2nd
September 2012
9 posts
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Facebook and Social Media with Midday Oasis... →
In case you missed Facebook and Social Media with Sandra J. Brekke and Shannon Meaney from Stanford, you can go to the Midday Archives page to view the recording. The webinar covered lots of useful information about Facebook Fan pages and L inkedIn Groups. The Social Media Smackdown was great fun! Check it out!  http://middaysocialmedia.weebly.com/ Next month’s session on Oct 17th is entitled:...
Sep 27th
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NEW APP ALERT: Kicksend →
Sending lots of full-quality photos to your family is usually painful. Kicksend makes it easy to send, receive, and view photos and videos on any device, anywhere.
Sep 27th
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Using Google Sites to Create an E-Portfolio →
Using Google Sites to Create an E-Portfolio E-portfolios are back by popular demand! In May, we presented an introductory Webinar on e-portfolios, during which nearly 300 participants learned what an e-portfolio was and what tools could b e used to create one. Instructors Lisa Chow and Sandra Sajonas will return in November for a more in-depth, hands-on look at developing an e-portfolio using...
Sep 26th
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How can the new header engage your users to follow... →
The new Twitter header allows you to create an engaging image for your Twitter account. 
Sep 18th
5 ways to get the most out of LinkedIn →
Sep 12th
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What’s New in LIS Schools | American Libraries... →
Sep 11th
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Follow me on Facebook! →
Sep 4th
Seth Godin: How to get your ideas to spread →
Sep 4th
Alexis Ohanian: How to make a splash in social... →
Sep 4th
August 2012
9 posts
4 tags
I will be presenting at this online webinar about... →
Midday at the Oasis Midday at the Oasis is the monthly webinar presented by the Pacific Southwest Region of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine on various topics of interest to health sciences librarians and others. The Midday at the Oasis webinar highlights topics such as databases from the National Library of Medicine, mobile options, and new trends in health care and librarianship....
Aug 31st
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Emerging Mobile Technology : Flipboard →
I love walking through Palo Alto and looking at all the start ups… being the geek that I am I looked up one I passed yesterday …..Try Flipboard it is REALLY cool!  Even if you dote on Facebook and Twitter, spending time with them can feel like getting pelted in the face by thousands of undifferentiated updates from your friends — exhilarating, perhaps, but also exhausting. The killer...
Aug 27th
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6 Leadership Tips from Jim Collins →
In a previous article The 11 Leadership Secrets You’ve Never Heard About, I introduced Jim Collins, my mentor at what is now the A&E Network. Though it has been more than 25 years, the leadership lessons I learned from him remain pivotal to my life. Ordinarily, as Huck Finn might say, I don’t take much stock in “tips.” Human beings prefer the concrete to the abstract, and this largely explains...
Aug 20th
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The Beginner’s Guide to Facebook →
Aug 17th
What do we do and why do we do it?  →
Emily Ford writes: “The library community should develop a philosophy of librarianship. In order to do so, the community should engage in a dialogue about what we do and why we do it. Engaging in a reflective and philosophically based practice of librarianship will enable the library community to have successful conversations with those they serve. As a result, librarians will be invited to...
Aug 8th
Essential Bookmarks | American Libraries Magazine →
Aug 8th
PubMed Centeral Name Change →
Aug 8th
Getting the most out of information from social... →
Aug 2nd
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Do you Doodle? →
Doodle eliminates the chaos of scheduling and saves you a lot of time and energy when you’re trying to find a time to bring a number of people together. The service is used for business and personal scheduling by more than 10 million people per month. Instead of using just one option, Doodle enables you to propose several dates and times and the participants can indicate their availability online....
Aug 1st
July 2012
4 posts
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Health Center Library Director Serving as Mentor |... →
Jul 27th
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Online Searching and Internet Browsing: Or why... →
Jul 27th
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SF Library Offers 'Privacy Screens' to Block Porn →
What do you think of these new privacy screens, good, bad?  Are the libraries doing the right thing?
Jul 27th
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David A. Bell: The Bookless Library | The New... →
Jul 17th
June 2012
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Meebo Chat Aleternatives for Libraries
As we all know Meebo is shutting down their chat service July 11, 2012.  Libraries that use this easy and efficient chat services have less then a month to decide what alternative chat service they would like to use. Some that I have heard about, that seem like a good close match to Meebo are, Zoho, ebuddy and library H3lp.  Here are some sites that may help in your search: ...
Jun 26th
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Chicago Public Library Commissioner Brian Bannon |... →
Jun 20th
May 2012
10 posts
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Libraries →
May 30th
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“On Wednesday, Corey Williams of the American Library Association’s Washington...”
– ALA Advocates for Public Access to Federal Research at Brookings Institution Panel
May 23rd
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Libraries are back - Westphoria | A blog by Sunset →
May 23rd
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Future Libraries and 17 Forms of Information... →
May 23rd
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Library Journal Movers & Shakers 2012  →
May 22nd
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New Design Practices for Touch-free Interactions  →
May 22nd
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You Don’t Have to Be a Manager to Be a Leader →
May 22nd
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May 22nd
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Some Wisconsin public libraries pull '50 Shades of... →
May 14th
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Long-term preservation has some big challenges.... →
May 8th
April 2012
5 posts
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Preparing for next-gen workers, with next-gen... →
Apr 11th
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Apr 4th
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Apr 4th
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Big Marketers on Campus →
Apr 4th